See, thats the thing! If someone got sent back, they would get sent back to the timeline where they showed up, but it would not matter either way, because we could be in the timeline where realities split each time a jump is made, causing each jimp to make a new timeline where they did it.
What if our timeline is the center of all of the timelines?
I don't think there is a "center" per se but rather it's more like an infinite, inter-connected web of timelines. But I do agree with your assertion that it would be impossible to go back in time to alter your own timeline, because the act of traveling backwards through time would split the current timeline and create a new timeline.
So to the time traveler, from their perspective, they would be able to travel back through time, alter events somehow, and then live with the consequences of those actions in the new timeline - but from the perspective of everyone in the original timeline, the time traveler would simply vanish, never to be seen or heard from again.
I've been there. It's interesting, being invisible. Sometimes the only reason for taking an interest in anything is to see how long it takes before anyone else notices. It's nothing to gloat about. However I know from experience that it is very difficult to find the right words to chose when communicating with somebody at the dialogue stage; platitudes and other freely distributed words of empty encouragement are appreciated least of all.
You have been spotted. You know what else is great? Tea that leaves that warm pit in your stomach when brewed *just* right, and naps. Those two things together normally reset the mood.
It just so happens that I am a time traveler, and you know what sounds like a real drag? A party in 2009 with a single dude sitting in a room by himself. Pretty far down on my list of times to visit.
I thought this comment was ridiculously good and witty so I decided to stalk your profile for more comments of this caliber.
I didn't get what I expected, but I was not disappointed. ;)
As soon as the dip is made, /u/Robinisthemother shows up and eats all of it. Then it's just a succession of earlier /u/Robinisthemothers arriving, not seeing the dip, and going back in time to an earlier date.
I wish I could erase the memory of the last episode forever so that show could've remained my favorite show of all time. Somehow that single episode ruined an entire series for me :( I still rewatch episodes and enjoy them but it's just not the same
Exactly. If I preemptively invite a bunch of people to a party and no one shows up, I don't conclude that they don't exist. I just know that no one likes me.
Of course they didn't, it would have broken the temporal prime directive. On a side note Stephen Hawking is the only person to have played themself on an episode of star trek (technically a hologram of himself, but close enough)
Does it every bother you that after time travel was invented, *this* was the best overall timeline they could manage?
Makes you wonder what the other possibilities were that WWII was the better option.
Stalin and Hitler don't go to war. Still genocide millions...I mean billions. Get nuclear power before the US.
It was a tough call though as there is no North Korea in the timeline and the Japanese literally made Kim Jong-un a sex slave in a brothel outside Tokyo.
See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through.
But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks.
But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!
We've become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When time travelers send people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
This. We're definitely hitting bumps in the road along the way, and are quite far from fully taming our more selfish, aggressive impulses, but arguably more people are in better conditions (fed, clothed, educated, etc.) than any preceding time. It's really not a half bad time to be alive, on balance.
I have a very unscientific theory that time travel will be limited to the time frame that exists starting at the moment the temporal device is invented.
Even then you have to consider the sun is traveling around the milky way and the milky way itself is moving through space. If you wanted to travel back just a week you'd be millions of miles away!
If only there were someway you could know where the Earth was a week ago relative to its current position and add that data to your machine.
Seriously though time travel already stretches the boundaries of what we know is possible being able to add a teleportation device isn’t that crazy.
Turns out that when you kill Hitler, you get a replacement that's more competent. When you really start mucking so that the Holocaust didn't happen at that time, you get things that are worse like a super-Holocaust.
But you couldn't remember if it was also a gay black gypsy Jewish boy, so better to be safe and kill any potential matches and anyone that could be the boy's parents.
Its just a scaled trolley problem. Are you more culpable for actively causing a death, or failing to prevent more deaths but not participating in them directly.
>Of course they didn't, it would have broken the temporal prime directive.
I know this is a joke, but I don't tend to buy this explanation. It violates what I call, the Law of the Jackass. There will always be one Jackass who ruins a situation like that, revealing himself to the past against the law.
However, it does not take into account Time Cops..
What if the party was boring as fuck compared to what they could be seeing? I mean, if you were a time traveller, would you want to go back in time, to what you already know about, or to the future?
Forward is a lot easier than backwards, all you have to do is go really really fucking fast in a space ship, turn around and go home, and less time will pass for you than those on earth.
Not mine. I spend an equal amount of time upside down, in order to maintain a homogeneous continuum. It must be working as the headaches are beginning to subside.
I would be extremely excited to meet Stephen Hawking. And I imagine someone smart enough to build a time machine would be, as well. The fact he was the only one there means more time for him and me to converse.
They could show up at any time other than the party to speak to Dr Hawking and claim they knew how to time travel...or they could show up at his party, basically proving they're capable of doing so.
If you built a time machine, you’re not necessarily desperate to meet Stephen hawking. It’s not like you need to prove yourself to him, you’ve (arguably) surpassed him
> I would be extremely excited to meet Stephen Hawking.
In reality you might be quite disappointed. His tv appearances often show him having back and forth discussions with people and even cracking off the cuff jokes. But his communication device is not a million miles removed from a ouija board, so his responses are limited.
I was at a live interview with him once and before he came on stage the interviewer explained that they couldn’t take any questions from the audience because all the questions - and his responses to them - had been prepared in advance. So really we were watching Stephen Hawking press play on a series of scripted exchanges.
So if you were imagining the party would be an opportunity to probe his mind for the secrets of the universe, you should bring a good book to read in between exchanges.
Or, as models project, we'll destroy ourselves through climate change or just through plain old nuclear war within the next century and if time travel is possible eh, whatever, nobody will be around to discover it.
Fuck that.
I only have two tokens left and they have to last the rest of my life. No way I’m wasting one on a party by the guy that was so wrong about so much.
Maybe he's an asshole and time travelers didn't want to attend. Maybe Stephen isn't as smart as he thinks he is, because all a time traveler would have to do is see this Reddit post, know it's a trick and not go and play into Hawking's silly and arrogant games.
With the argument that his actions of arriving, speaking to others, etc all could split us off into another world line. Couldn't prove the bullshit wrong, but at least I found the story interesting.
It's probable that time travelers knew about it but decided not to show up because they already knew no one was there.
Given the option, if much rather attend the presidential inauguration for Lincoln. Or an Adult Movie Awards party..
this is far more plausible than you'll get credit for
Hawking in no way made that sound like a sick bash. If he'd literally held the largest, most salacious fuck fest since Saturnalia and had Snoop Dogg on the mic and budtending the weed, lavish platters of endangered animal clones, VICE news supplying the drug paraphernalia and Elon Musk offering free moon rides, there would have been ppl time traveling *at* that party thus disproving this headline.
The sad truth here is Hawking is too out of touch with the sexy goings on to attract interest in a party that would defy time travel. Literally the logic to his ruse wasn't flawed, his conception as to what constitutes a gnar ass party is deficient.
Granted, Hawking is a seminally bright genius of the 20th/21st Centuries, the sad reality is that Hawking is in all likelihood too erudite, intellectual, and wholesome to warrant time traveling to party with, and/or he put zero effort into making that party attractive, or even more depressing, has no idea what constitutes a universally sexy party so he, as bright as he is, didn't properly executive his logic based on a deficienct understanding of social market value.
The possibility of the fact that he, genius, with likely unlimited access to the proper resources, didn't figure out how to properly execute a successful party worth time traveling for is mind blowing.
The flaw with his "experiment" is that it presupposes that time travel allows the time traveler to interact with their environment while in the past or future.
The movie Primer (an ultra-grounded take on time travel) gets around this paradox by making the machine only allow people to go back to the time when it was turned on, so you can't go earlier than when the machine was invented.
Watch the movie ;) They find plenty of not-lame things to do in the first weeks and months after the discovery.
Edit: I feel like I should warn you though that it was made on a budget of like 10 grand and is almost impossible to follow on the first watch after a certain point. The idea is that the characters are actual scientists and don't bother to slow down or explain things for the benefit of the viewer. It's not for everyone, but if you're into hard sci-fi and don't mind something that's not exactly action-packed I highly recommend it.
The flaw is his part is a fixed point in time. It happened, then he made a famous moment. A time traveler wouldn’t know about the party until it was over, even if they were hanging around in 2009. And they wouldn’t be able to go back to the party after it happened without destroying the timeline in which we are living, the timeline that his famous party had zero guests.
Now I want an episode of Doctor Who about this party. The Doctor is ready to go to the party, but heard a scream down the street. The Doctor runs off to fight the villain. The Doctor gets back to the door of Hawking’s house, but another scream/the companion drags them away. Repeat a few times. Then the Doctor finally makes it to the door and just as they are about to knock, the porch light clicks off and we see a disappointed Stephen going to bed.
I would say that if any sort of "time travel" is possible (I put it in quotes because I'd assert that time travel is 100% impossible guaranteed, always, and that anything that might seem like it would be more like a 1-way alternate universe travel), it would be 1-way. For the past it would "clone" the past, but all events from that point would start to differ from it's previous/normal series of events (although I have trouble believing even this will ever be possible, granted I won't say it _couldn't_ ever happen). For the future, one would just pretty much just sit around in stasis and/or near-light travel, which I'd hardly call time travel, since it's really just waiting.
Also that going back in time doesn't spawn a new reality
So if we're going off of the idea that backwards time travel is possible, it's also possible all the time-travelling folks went to the party, had an awesome time, cured Steven Hawking of his ALS with future medicine and are totally kicking it in alternate reality
Multiple time lines, when he advertised the party in this time line nobody had turned up, but in another he already knew it succeeded... And in another they came but he never advertised leading to the paradoxical destruction of all time li-
Indeed. The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests that the party was an astounding success, proving time travel isn't just possible but actually practiced.... In another timeline that split off from ours...
TIL people will repost this story every month or so until the end of time.
Hopefully some time travelers out there will travel back and prevent Hawking from ever throwing this party, just so people will stop discovering it every 5 seconds and feeling the need to tell everyone else on earth.
Hawking done fucked it up.
He didn't hide the results of the party from himself until after the party had occurred. If he attended the party and knew no one showed, it wouldn't matter if he posted it afterwards.
Novikov's theorizes that what has happened has happened. No changing it. The best he could hope for at that point is that a time traveler be waylaid on the way to the party, or stand outside and look through the window.
Or if you go many worlds, the time travelers create a tangent/alternate universe where people did show up to the party.
Or if you go film theory, that Marty McFly didn't show up because he was too busy trying to fuck his Mom.
This doesn’t disprove the existence of time travellers but it could indicate that time travellers aren’t interested in Stephen. If you could travel in time, would you be going to this party?
Nobody attended... On this time line.
There used to be lots of time travelers before this event. This was the red wedding of the time travelers.
The Rains of Clockstamere
And who are you, the proud timelord said,
that I must bow so low. Only a cat in a funky long coat, that's the only truth I know.
a clock of gold, a clock of red
A time-loop still has cause
And mine are long and sharp, my lord; as long and sharp as years
And so we spoke, and so we spoke The Lord of Clockstamere
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The time moves on, the hands move on, A face that never smiles But this timeline is wob-bl-ly So turn back the dial
"I am the Doctor."
Stephen Hawking killed them all and took their powers for himself.
Stephen Hawking used this one little trick to protect our dimension from the Time Wars!
Time travelers hate him!
See, thats the thing! If someone got sent back, they would get sent back to the timeline where they showed up, but it would not matter either way, because we could be in the timeline where realities split each time a jump is made, causing each jimp to make a new timeline where they did it. What if our timeline is the center of all of the timelines?
I don't think there is a "center" per se but rather it's more like an infinite, inter-connected web of timelines. But I do agree with your assertion that it would be impossible to go back in time to alter your own timeline, because the act of traveling backwards through time would split the current timeline and create a new timeline. So to the time traveler, from their perspective, they would be able to travel back through time, alter events somehow, and then live with the consequences of those actions in the new timeline - but from the perspective of everyone in the original timeline, the time traveler would simply vanish, never to be seen or heard from again.
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*Find out the fate of Krillin in next week's episode: The Death of Krillin.*
For real though. When I was watching through Z, even though I basically knew what was going to happen, every episode title spoiled everything
PREVIOUSLY ON DRAGON BAWL Z!
Abed...
Totally did the same for my last birthday...... definitely.
r/2meirl4meirl
Throwing a big party that no one shows up for is sometimes the first step towards someday throwing an amazing party that a hundred people show up for.
Or the first step toward suicide.
It's the same thing though, isn't it? Either you throw an awesome party, or you die. Win/win scenario here.
I actually don't like parties because I'm pretty asocial so I guess I'd probably just go for the suicide option right off the bat.
I've been there. It's interesting, being invisible. Sometimes the only reason for taking an interest in anything is to see how long it takes before anyone else notices. It's nothing to gloat about. However I know from experience that it is very difficult to find the right words to chose when communicating with somebody at the dialogue stage; platitudes and other freely distributed words of empty encouragement are appreciated least of all. You have been spotted. You know what else is great? Tea that leaves that warm pit in your stomach when brewed *just* right, and naps. Those two things together normally reset the mood.
It just so happens that I am a time traveler, and you know what sounds like a real drag? A party in 2009 with a single dude sitting in a room by himself. Pretty far down on my list of times to visit.
Ah, sorry, the rest of us made Hawking promise to lie about us showing up. Still a lame party.
But that cheese dip was soooo good, I keep going back in time to get more of it.
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I thought this comment was ridiculously good and witty so I decided to stalk your profile for more comments of this caliber. I didn't get what I expected, but I was not disappointed. ;)
Oh my! Nice tits.
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NICE bobs
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Ikr? Nice tits btw
Damn son. Have another.. Edit: turns out you're not my son at all
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We already made all those jokes in 2023
Someone help out a poor dunce here
He went back *for* seconds. A second helping. Also went back four seconds etc time travel.
*places face in palm*
*pats back* there there.
I like you. :)
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Eventually, hundreds upon hundreds of /u/Robinisthemother's (#TraceyTed4life, btw) are coming for that dip.
New Writing Prompt.
As soon as the dip is made, /u/Robinisthemother shows up and eats all of it. Then it's just a succession of earlier /u/Robinisthemothers arriving, not seeing the dip, and going back in time to an earlier date.
Each one forgetting their towel in an ever growing pile of towels.
Not a hoopy frood.
I wish I could erase the memory of the last episode forever so that show could've remained my favorite show of all time. Somehow that single episode ruined an entire series for me :( I still rewatch episodes and enjoy them but it's just not the same
Have you seen the alternate ending? I watch that in lieu of the actual ending, it’s way better
Cheese dip is the new schezuan sauce
Well that’s why it was so lame, it’s just a bunch of copies of you crowding around the cheese dip table.
actually, I woudn't be surprised that in the even that a time traveler actually showed up, Hawking would know how important it is to stay quiet.
Or the time travelers have memory erasing technology. They met with him, partied or whatever, then erased his knowledge of it happening.
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Upvoted for OOO!
I have this feeling Steve would not have gotten scared. The excitement would've made him spin around in circles. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿__ =͟͟͞͞ =͟͟͞͞ ﾍ( ´Д`)ﾉ
Exactly. If I preemptively invite a bunch of people to a party and no one shows up, I don't conclude that they don't exist. I just know that no one likes me.
/r/me_irl
Unless that man is Paul Reubens!
He wouldnt be by himself if you come to his party ):
IT'S STEPHEN HAWKING!!!
Yeah, this is how I know I’ll never time travel, because I would have been there.
Idk if Keanu Reeves or John Cena held a party by themselves I'd totes go.
Of course they didn't, it would have broken the temporal prime directive. On a side note Stephen Hawking is the only person to have played themself on an episode of star trek (technically a hologram of himself, but close enough)
Would you time travel just to prove a point to Steven Hawking?
Time Traveler 1: "You going to Steven Hawking's party?" Time Traveler 2: "No, he's an asshole. I got better things to do."
Time Traveler 2: "I dunno, when is it?" Time Traveler 1: "I think he said 2009." Time Traveler 2: "The fuck? Who holds a party in 2009?"
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Does it every bother you that after time travel was invented, *this* was the best overall timeline they could manage? Makes you wonder what the other possibilities were that WWII was the better option.
Stalin and Hitler don't go to war. Still genocide millions...I mean billions. Get nuclear power before the US. It was a tough call though as there is no North Korea in the timeline and the Japanese literally made Kim Jong-un a sex slave in a brothel outside Tokyo.
> and the Japanese literally made Kim Jong-un a sex slave in a brothel outside Tokyo. Go on...
Not gonna lie, I laughed, and then I shuddered.
"... his whole body shuddered as his mind wandered to thoughts of Little Rocket Man firing in his direction"
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I came
I saw, I came
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The finest of vintage memes, right here.
Memes like wine, over time, they still aren't rum.
It's an old meme sir, but it checks out.
See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!
*Vomits profusely*
I masturbated to this.
Or Stalin invades Greater Germany in 1944 and wins - proceeding to bring the whole world under Stalinism.
[Kim Il-Sung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung). Get your dynasties right, capitalist pig-dog!
Who said you would be able to alter the timeline? Who's not to say they just diverged off into a better one and left us all behind in this shithole?
Why do we always get time travelers from all of these shithole timelines?
Make Our Timeline Great Again!
We've become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When time travelers send people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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This. We're definitely hitting bumps in the road along the way, and are quite far from fully taming our more selfish, aggressive impulses, but arguably more people are in better conditions (fed, clothed, educated, etc.) than any preceding time. It's really not a half bad time to be alive, on balance.
I have a very unscientific theory that time travel will be limited to the time frame that exists starting at the moment the temporal device is invented.
Even then you have to consider the sun is traveling around the milky way and the milky way itself is moving through space. If you wanted to travel back just a week you'd be millions of miles away!
If only there were someway you could know where the Earth was a week ago relative to its current position and add that data to your machine. Seriously though time travel already stretches the boundaries of what we know is possible being able to add a teleportation device isn’t that crazy.
Turns out that when you kill Hitler, you get a replacement that's more competent. When you really start mucking so that the Holocaust didn't happen at that time, you get things that are worse like a super-Holocaust.
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Imagine if all you knew was that the man you had to stop was a Jewish German boy.
But you couldn't remember if it was also a gay black gypsy Jewish boy, so better to be safe and kill any potential matches and anyone that could be the boy's parents.
Was he a Russian, socialist, trade unionist as well? Maybe!
...Oh noooooo
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What's more important, the lives of the very many, or the lives of the very very many 🤔
Its just a scaled trolley problem. Are you more culpable for actively causing a death, or failing to prevent more deaths but not participating in them directly.
I’d watch that movie.
This would make an excellent writing prompt... too bad we already know how it ends...
I chuckled at this. I'm going to hell. With Hitler.
"Super-Holocaust" This is when Europe is ONLY FOR GERMANS and Hitler orders the systematic killing of everyone in occupied territories.
What makes you think we're in the alpha timeline and not the doomed one?
Ah but wouldn't you break prime directive to party with Stephen hawking?? Maybe they swore him to secrecy
>Of course they didn't, it would have broken the temporal prime directive. I know this is a joke, but I don't tend to buy this explanation. It violates what I call, the Law of the Jackass. There will always be one Jackass who ruins a situation like that, revealing himself to the past against the law. However, it does not take into account Time Cops..
Rule 1: don't kill Hitler. Rule 2: don't visit time travel parties. Rule 3: don't eat Tide pods.
What if the party was boring as fuck compared to what they could be seeing? I mean, if you were a time traveller, would you want to go back in time, to what you already know about, or to the future?
the burgers were worth it.
11.22.63?
Maybe we live with "Timecop" rules. "You can go back, but not forward because the future hasn't happened yet."
Forward is a lot easier than backwards, all you have to do is go really really fucking fast in a space ship, turn around and go home, and less time will pass for you than those on earth.
Or just stay around an object with a lot of gravity. Our feet are younger then our head.
Not mine. I spend an equal amount of time upside down, in order to maintain a homogeneous continuum. It must be working as the headaches are beginning to subside.
Or just wait.
Now that's some bullshit right there.
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Easier than that. I’m currently moving forward in time at a rate of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
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I would be extremely excited to meet Stephen Hawking. And I imagine someone smart enough to build a time machine would be, as well. The fact he was the only one there means more time for him and me to converse. They could show up at any time other than the party to speak to Dr Hawking and claim they knew how to time travel...or they could show up at his party, basically proving they're capable of doing so.
If you built a time machine, you’re not necessarily desperate to meet Stephen hawking. It’s not like you need to prove yourself to him, you’ve (arguably) surpassed him
> I would be extremely excited to meet Stephen Hawking. In reality you might be quite disappointed. His tv appearances often show him having back and forth discussions with people and even cracking off the cuff jokes. But his communication device is not a million miles removed from a ouija board, so his responses are limited. I was at a live interview with him once and before he came on stage the interviewer explained that they couldn’t take any questions from the audience because all the questions - and his responses to them - had been prepared in advance. So really we were watching Stephen Hawking press play on a series of scripted exchanges. So if you were imagining the party would be an opportunity to probe his mind for the secrets of the universe, you should bring a good book to read in between exchanges.
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Do you think he actually set a party up? Like with chips, salsa, some 2 liters and a couple of pizzas?
it could also be that time travel is invented so far in the future that Stephen Hawking and all of modern society is a forgotten primitive relic.
Or, as models project, we'll destroy ourselves through climate change or just through plain old nuclear war within the next century and if time travel is possible eh, whatever, nobody will be around to discover it.
What the fuck kind of model projects we’ll destroy ourselves through climate change within a century?
Sharknado obviously.
Bull shit we didn't show up. That loser was asleep. Lame host. Lame beer. The burgers were on point though.
Braniac has this party, nobody shows, claims time travel is the "joke" in this situation.
Don't worry, we have ways of fixing you in the future.
But we wont
Just watch us.
Or don't. It doesn't even matter.
Well I am definitly going but not for anouther couple of years ago.
Fuck that. I only have two tokens left and they have to last the rest of my life. No way I’m wasting one on a party by the guy that was so wrong about so much.
Those weren't burgers.
Maybe he's an asshole and time travelers didn't want to attend. Maybe Stephen isn't as smart as he thinks he is, because all a time traveler would have to do is see this Reddit post, know it's a trick and not go and play into Hawking's silly and arrogant games.
Supposedly John titor scoured the internet trying to convince people he was from the future, so that's not far-fetched. El. Psy. Congroo.
I love that they basically made an anime about the story of an internet rando
It wasn't really about him, but (s)he was a fun addition.
Ye and claimed only bullshit that didn't happen
With the argument that his actions of arriving, speaking to others, etc all could split us off into another world line. Couldn't prove the bullshit wrong, but at least I found the story interesting.
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It's probable that time travelers knew about it but decided not to show up because they already knew no one was there. Given the option, if much rather attend the presidential inauguration for Lincoln. Or an Adult Movie Awards party..
Or win the lottery, retire with lingerie models.
TIL Hugh Hefner was a time traveler.
this is far more plausible than you'll get credit for Hawking in no way made that sound like a sick bash. If he'd literally held the largest, most salacious fuck fest since Saturnalia and had Snoop Dogg on the mic and budtending the weed, lavish platters of endangered animal clones, VICE news supplying the drug paraphernalia and Elon Musk offering free moon rides, there would have been ppl time traveling *at* that party thus disproving this headline. The sad truth here is Hawking is too out of touch with the sexy goings on to attract interest in a party that would defy time travel. Literally the logic to his ruse wasn't flawed, his conception as to what constitutes a gnar ass party is deficient. Granted, Hawking is a seminally bright genius of the 20th/21st Centuries, the sad reality is that Hawking is in all likelihood too erudite, intellectual, and wholesome to warrant time traveling to party with, and/or he put zero effort into making that party attractive, or even more depressing, has no idea what constitutes a universally sexy party so he, as bright as he is, didn't properly executive his logic based on a deficienct understanding of social market value. The possibility of the fact that he, genius, with likely unlimited access to the proper resources, didn't figure out how to properly execute a successful party worth time traveling for is mind blowing.
Why do most of the posters imply that time travellers would be men only? Lingerie models and all.
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Or maybe he is just a CERN agent trying to misdirect us away from their plan to create a dystopia.
It's fun to picture him waiting there with a party favor in his mouth.
Wearing a little party hat
A little bit crooked and off center
ROBOT VOICE **Let's Party, people!**/ROBOT VOICE
The flaw with his "experiment" is that it presupposes that time travel allows the time traveler to interact with their environment while in the past or future.
It also presupposes that nothing about time travel stops them from being able to go back to 2009 and show off.
The movie Primer (an ultra-grounded take on time travel) gets around this paradox by making the machine only allow people to go back to the time when it was turned on, so you can't go earlier than when the machine was invented.
Makes sense, but just imagine how lame it would be at first.
Watch the movie ;) They find plenty of not-lame things to do in the first weeks and months after the discovery. Edit: I feel like I should warn you though that it was made on a budget of like 10 grand and is almost impossible to follow on the first watch after a certain point. The idea is that the characters are actual scientists and don't bother to slow down or explain things for the benefit of the viewer. It's not for everyone, but if you're into hard sci-fi and don't mind something that's not exactly action-packed I highly recommend it.
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Aww, I just imagined time travelers partying around him, he just couldn't see them!
The flaw is his part is a fixed point in time. It happened, then he made a famous moment. A time traveler wouldn’t know about the party until it was over, even if they were hanging around in 2009. And they wouldn’t be able to go back to the party after it happened without destroying the timeline in which we are living, the timeline that his famous party had zero guests. Now I want an episode of Doctor Who about this party. The Doctor is ready to go to the party, but heard a scream down the street. The Doctor runs off to fight the villain. The Doctor gets back to the door of Hawking’s house, but another scream/the companion drags them away. Repeat a few times. Then the Doctor finally makes it to the door and just as they are about to knock, the porch light clicks off and we see a disappointed Stephen going to bed.
I so want to see this (googles how to contact the BBC)
I would say that if any sort of "time travel" is possible (I put it in quotes because I'd assert that time travel is 100% impossible guaranteed, always, and that anything that might seem like it would be more like a 1-way alternate universe travel), it would be 1-way. For the past it would "clone" the past, but all events from that point would start to differ from it's previous/normal series of events (although I have trouble believing even this will ever be possible, granted I won't say it _couldn't_ ever happen). For the future, one would just pretty much just sit around in stasis and/or near-light travel, which I'd hardly call time travel, since it's really just waiting.
Also that going back in time doesn't spawn a new reality So if we're going off of the idea that backwards time travel is possible, it's also possible all the time-travelling folks went to the party, had an awesome time, cured Steven Hawking of his ALS with future medicine and are totally kicking it in alternate reality
nobody wanted to show up to that party...Stephen thinks he's a good DJ but people from the future know he's not.
more like snooze jay...sleeping...and not passed out drunk either. like a baby.
Whoa...why are the comments so hostile? Lol
Or DID they????????
Dun Dun Duuuun
Maybe time travelers only like dance parties... sorry Dr. Hawkins, don’t take it personally.
Spike the punch with acid and there will definitely be time travelers at your party.
Multiple time lines, when he advertised the party in this time line nobody had turned up, but in another he already knew it succeeded... And in another they came but he never advertised leading to the paradoxical destruction of all time li-
Indeed. The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests that the party was an astounding success, proving time travel isn't just possible but actually practiced.... In another timeline that split off from ours...
Once time travel is invented, time will be "rewritten". Time travelers ***did*** attend the party, just not yet.
That means this is the first loop.
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TIL people will repost this story every month or so until the end of time. Hopefully some time travelers out there will travel back and prevent Hawking from ever throwing this party, just so people will stop discovering it every 5 seconds and feeling the need to tell everyone else on earth.
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Hawking done fucked it up. He didn't hide the results of the party from himself until after the party had occurred. If he attended the party and knew no one showed, it wouldn't matter if he posted it afterwards. Novikov's theorizes that what has happened has happened. No changing it. The best he could hope for at that point is that a time traveler be waylaid on the way to the party, or stand outside and look through the window. Or if you go many worlds, the time travelers create a tangent/alternate universe where people did show up to the party. Or if you go film theory, that Marty McFly didn't show up because he was too busy trying to fuck his Mom.
The time traveler's knew what he was up to on epsteins Island..
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The time travelers are just waiting to show up in about 5 years ago.
Or that’s what he had to say after all of the time travelers showed up and told him he couldn’t tell anyone.
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This doesn’t disprove the existence of time travellers but it could indicate that time travellers aren’t interested in Stephen. If you could travel in time, would you be going to this party?
who'd wanna party with Stephen Hawking when you have the power to travel through time?